Most consumers equate Amazon with books, Kindles and now a whole bevy of products from bikes to cooking gear to posters.
IT pros now also think of the cloud, and in particular Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Unfortunately for most, AWS is kind of like the Wild West of the cloud – you buy raw services or capacity and then you are entirely on your own.
Managed AWS tames that beast. And now Logicworks is joining the growing legion of managed AWS providers with its new Managed AWS service.
Here Logicworks “provides clients with the elasticity, scalability and unlimited resources of Amazon Web Services' powerful cloud combined with Logicworks' team of top-tier system administrators, cloud engineers, and network technicians,” the company said.
MSP Logicworks is already an AWS Partner Network Consulting Partner. The company can do a soup-to-nuts AWS solution that includes automated deployment and implementation of client-specific workflows.
Once the application is all set, Logicworks will manage the whole thing, including application maintenance and support.
Many move to the cloud to offload IT. Managed services takes this one step further. “The hidden cost in cloud delivery is the time and scarce engineering talent necessary to deploy and support the right mix of public and private cloud platforms,” says Kenneth Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks. “Logicworks helps IT organizations deploy applications on AWS while also assuming the responsibility of babysitting, automating, and optimizing their infrastructure so that they can focus on their applications.”
Not all AWS setups are created or deployed equally. Logicworks says it can integrate AWS clouds with hosted private clouds or other methods. “Combining the predictability, compliance and reliability of a private cloud directly connected to the features, automation and scale of AWS is a powerful and natural combination for companies that want to get out of the infrastructure management business themselves,” Ziegler argued.
The 20-year-old Logicwork counts Dow Jones and NBC as clients.
Amazon Winds into Managed Space
Amazon itself saw the untamed nature of its cloud and has its own line of managed services. In fact, it has a whole separate company, Managed Solutions IT, “that helps SMBs integrate cloud computing into their IT and business strategies,” the company said.
Amazon managed services can handle big data, storage and remote infrastructure management. Not shy about competing with partners, Amazon touts that has “the most competitive prices for services.”
Edited by
Alisen Downey
